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Ask HN: Is there any software you only made for your own use but nobody else?

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Re: Ask HN: Is there any software you only made for your own use but nobody else?

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Post by ryandrake »

I made a macOS/iOS tournament clock for live poker games. I just wasn't happy with the few existing applications, so built and use my own. It is client/server so other people in the tournament can connect their devices and have the clock synchronized and shown on their own device, including phones and watches. It can also run dedicated/headless on Linux. I use a command line client to integration-test the networking and synching.

I never released it because 1. it's perpetually 98% done and 2. I don't feel like offering technical support for it and dealing with people who don't like it or find bugs. I may just open source it, but then I get to be a maintainer which is an even more thankless job.

Re: Ask HN: Is there any software you only made for your own use but nobody else?

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Post by pimlottc »

Leftium wrote: post #73

I made an app for my brother's wedding so all invitees could easily upload and view photos in a shared slideshow (displayed in real-time on a big TV at the event). Dismantled as soon as the event was over. It took less than a day to create with SvelteKit, Dropbox, and https://slidesome.com Some more: - https://weather-sense.leftium.com : weather app with the trendcast just the way I like it. WIP, but already using it…

You made a marketing page for your one-off shared photo collection app?

Re: Ask HN: Is there any software you only made for your own use but nobody else?

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Post by willhackett »

I've made an email-based AI personal assistant I thought I'd roll into a business, but ultimately have kept it for personal use. I may open source this as it's a fun project built entirely on Cloudflare Workers (with the exception of one Postgres DB & mail routing).

I've written some really crappy Notion API (before the official API) to act as a CMS for a headless site.

I'm at a weird point in my life that I need to work on these little hacky projects because they bring me genuine joy. It's like lego to me.

Re: Ask HN: Is there any software you only made for your own use but nobody else?

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Post by Valord »

About 3 years ago I wrote a web app to make browsing and categorizing my YouTube subscriptions easier. I can, for example, select the music category and see all videos posted by channels I have marked as music. Really simple stuff backed by a sqlite db.

I spent a total of probably 20 hours on it and use it 5/7 days a week.

Re: Ask HN: Is there any software you only made for your own use but nobody else?

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Post by pryelluw »

I have a forever project that is only meant for my needs. It’s basically a web app with a bunch of tools to make my life easier. Things like a links board, blog engine, event tracker, and more. Now I’m adding an llm to include better search abilities. The thing is pretty nice and fast. Uses a simple architecture because I don’t want to spend a lot of time maintaining it.

Re: Ask HN: Is there any software you only made for your own use but nobody else?

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Post by steveridout »

I've got a bunch of scripts to handle my finances, both personal investments and to help with certain parts of my company tax reporting.

Among other things it uses ChatGPT to extract structured data from PDF invoices for reporting expenses.

Re: Ask HN: Is there any software you only made for your own use but nobody else?

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Post by joeyagreco »

beattheprose wrote: post #78

Web service that turns a YouTube channel to a Podcast-compatible RSS feed, just by changing the URL from https://youtube.com/XYZ to https://$SERVICE_URL/XYZ . Use it almost every day. It’s nice to keep up with channels I care about while escaping the algorithm. Something I work on-and-off on. Could be interested in open-sourcing it fully if folks are interested in helping out. Im a pretty junior engineer, so work is…

You should open source this!
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